Dr Zhenhui Yuan

Dr. Zhenhui Yuan is with the Connected Systems Group where he focuses on applying AI and advanced networking technologies to enable seamless robot-to-robot and robot-to-human collaboration. He received a BEng in Software Engineering from Wuhan University, China, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University, Ireland. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher funded by Ericsson and Enterprise Ireland, and as a visiting scientist at the Network Research Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served as a 3GPP delegate and Senior Research Engineer in 5G at Huawei Technologies (2014-2015) in Shanghai. He co-founded RobSense Technology (Hangzhou, China), where he served as CTO (2015-2019), leading the development of mobile robots for industrial services. RobSense secured venture investment exceeding over 15 million RMB. Dr. Yuan has also held the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems at Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. He later joined Northumbria University (UK) as a Senior Lecturer and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick (since 2023).

He serves as a Consulting Member in telerobotics at the Institute for Applied & Translational Technologies in Surgery at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire/NHS Trust), and is a member of the IEEE P1954 Working Group on UAV communications. He has led multiple research projects as Principal Investigator, funded by the British Academy, EPSRC, Horizon Europe, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, and has served as Leading Guest Editor for special issues in IEEE Network, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal, as well as Associate Editor for IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and the Journal of Pervasive Computing & Communications. He is also the founding Chair of the VeSUS workshop (“6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development”), which has been successfully held at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference and the IEEE International Conference on Communications.

A full list of publications/projects/demos can be found at Dr.Yuan's research website:

http://www.zhenhuiyuan.net Link opens in a new window

Networked Robotics, Wireless Communications, Multimedia Delivery, Telepresence